1st Edition
Political Representation in the European Union Still democratic in times of crisis?
The search for democratic representation in times of crisis 5
Sandra Kröger
Part I: Electoral forms of representation and the democratic crisis of the EU
Compounded Representation in the EU: no country for old parliaments? 37
Johannes Pollak
Party strategies towards interest groups in a Europeanized Europe 70
Anne Rasmussen and Gert-Jan Lindeboom
The Structure of EU-representation and the Crisis 105
John Erik Fossum
Representation in the Councils of the EU 140
Daniel Naurin
The Committee of the Regions as representative assembly: mission impossible or miracle in the making? 176
Simona Piattoni
Part II: Non-electoral forms of representation in multi-level representation in times of crisis
Representation and network governance in Europe 216
Martino Maggetti
The European Commission and political representation: A new inter-institutional perspective 250
Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán and Stijn Smismans
The involvement of the constituencies of European umbrella organizations in EU affairs 287
Sandra Kröger
Democratic representation in transnational citizens’ forums? 324
Dawid Friedrich
Mediated representative politics: the Euro-crisis and the politicization
of the EU 366
Hans-Jörg Trenz
Who is the Guardian for Constitutionalism in Europe after the Financial Crisis? 400
Michelle Everson and Christian Joerges
Part III: Concluding essays
Representation as the Cornerstone for Efficient and Legitimate
Governance 429
Beate Kohler-Koch
Concluding Notes: Rethinking Political Representation in a Supranational Context 472
Dario Castiglione
Biography
Sandra Kröger is a lecturer at the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, UK.
